Six short stories about the natural world by the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez was an essayist, author, and short-story writer who traveled extensively in both remote and populated parts of the world. He is the author of Arctic Dreams, which received the National Book Award; Horizon, Of Wolves and Men, Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape; and eight works of fiction, including Outside, Light Action in the Caribbean, Field Notes, and Resistance. He is the author of Syntax of the River: The Pattern Which Connects with Julia Martin. His essays are collected in two books, Crossing Open Ground and About This Life. Lopez lived in western Oregon.

Contents

"Desert Notes"
"Twilight"
"The Search for the Heron"
"The Falls"
"Within Bird's Hearing"
"Empira's Tapestry"